Innovative strategy for addressing the challenges of monitoring off-shore wind turbines for condition-based maintenance

Al-Habaibeh, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-9867-6011, Boateng, A. and Lee, H., 2020. Innovative strategy for addressing the challenges of monitoring off-shore wind turbines for condition-based maintenance. In: [Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Energy and Sustainable Futures (ICESF 2020)]. Springer.

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Abstract

Offshore wind energy technology is considered to be one of the most important renewable energy source in the 21 st century towards reducing carbon emission and providing the electricity needed to power our cities. However, due to being installed away from the shore, ensuring availability and performing maintenance procedures could be an expensive and time consuming task. Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) could play an important role in enhancing the payback period on investment and avoiding unexpected failures that could reduce the available capacity and increase maintenance costs. Due to being at distance from the shore, it is difficult to transfer high frequency data in real time and because of this data transferring issue, only low frequency-average SCADA data (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) is available for condition monitoring. Another problem when monitoring wind energy is the massive variation in weather conditions (e.g. wind speed and direction), which could produce a wide range of operational alerts and warnings. This paper presents a novel case study of integrated event-based wind turbine alerts with time-based sensory data from the SCADA system to perform a condition monitoring strategy to categorise health conditions. The initial results presented in this paper, using vibration levels of the drive train, indicate that the suggested monitoring strategy could be implemented to develop an effective condition monitoring system.

Item Type:	Chapter in book
Description:	Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Energy and Sustainable Futures (ICESF 2020), University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, 10-11 September 2020.
Creators:	Al-Habaibeh, A., Boateng, A. and Lee, H.
Publisher:	Springer
Date:	6 August 2020
Identifiers:	Number Type 1369097 Other
Divisions:	Schools > School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	24 Sep 2020 15:26
Last Modified:	31 May 2021 15:16
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/40914

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